An unnamed woman checks into a guesthouse in a mysterious district known only as the Subdivision. The guesthouse’s owners, Clara and the Judge, are welcoming and helpful, if oddly preoccupied by the perpetually baffling jigsaw puzzle in the living room. With little more than a hand-drawn…
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Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon—the legacy of P.T. Barnum's "humbug" culminating with the currency of Donald J. Trump's "fake news."Disturbingly, Young finds that fakery is woven from stereotype and suspicion, with…
The Impossible Fairy Tale is the story of two unexceptional grade-school girls. Mia is “lucky”—she is spoiled by her mother and, as she explains, her two fathers. She gloats over her exotic imported colored pencils and won’t be denied a coveted sweater. Then there is the Child who, by…
In The Complete Ballet, John Haskell choreographs an intricate and irresistible pas de deux in which fiction and criticism come together to create a new kind of story. Fueled by the dramatic retelling of five romantic ballets (La Sylphide, Giselle, La…
Graywolf Press is pleased to announce the latest winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize: Zat Lun by Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint, which was selected from more than 700 manuscripts by the Graywolf editors. In Zat Lun, Myint pushes back against expectations…
Dawn is breaking over the Guilleries, a rugged mountain range in Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, brigands, deserters, race-car drivers, ghosts, and demons. In a remote farmhouse called Mas Clavell, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed. Family and caretakers drift in and out. Meanwhile…
In Elixir, in a wild river valley and amid the three mountains that define it, Kapka Kassabova seeks out the deep connection between people, plants, and place. The Mesta is one of the oldest rivers in Europe and the surrounding forests and mountains of the southern Balkans are an…
Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric is an innovative work of poetry, prose, and visual images that addresses race and its individual and collective effects.
Microaggressions and instances of…